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Archived Success Stories

Archived Success Stories are a collection of Success Stories previously reported by the firm based on technology developed under the SBIR/STTR Programs. These stories are no longer current and are provided for informational purposes only.

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1 Solar Kinetics, Dallas, TX

Improved Mirror Facet

Advanced Bionics, Inc., Hopkins, MN

Bearing and Seal-Free Fluid Pump

Advanced Crystal Products Corporation, Woburn, MA

Single Crystal Oxide Fibers: EFG Processing of Optical, Piezoelectric and Structural Materials

Advanced Modular Power Systems, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

AMTEC Energy Conversion Technology

Advanced Research and Applications Corporation Sunnyvale, CA

Large Area Detector for Radiographic Measurements

Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA

High Temperature Combustion Diagnostic Method Utilizing Rayleigh Scattering
Optimization of Silicon Carbide Production
Turbomachinery Flowfield Temperature Measurement Linear Imaging Diagnostics

AI Ware, Inc., Cleveland, OH (acquired by Computer Associates International, Inc., Islandia, NY)

Design of Experiments Module

American GNC Corporation, Simi Valley, CA

High Precision Autonomous Vehicle Operation

Artep, Columbia, MD

Collimators for X-Ray, Gamma Ray, and Neutron Astronomy

Aurora Associates, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Infrared Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter (AOTF)

Automotive Resources, Inc. (formerly Aqualytic Technologies) Sandpoint, ID

The SmartPlug™ Catalytic Ignition System

Biospherical Instruments, Inc., San Diego, CA

Moored Oceanographic Spectroradiometer

Boston Applied Technologies (originally, NZ Applied Technologies) Woburn, MA

Ferroelectric Films Grown on Ferrite Substrates

Brimrose Corporation of America Baltimore, MD

Novel Photorefractive Material ZnTe:V for Optical Processing

Boulder Nonlinear Systems, Inc., Lafayette, CO

High Speed, Compact Spacial Light Modulator

Cadetron, Inc., Atlanta, GA

Autosolid

CFD Research Corporation Huntsville, AL

Microscopic and Macroscopic Modeling of Layer Growth Kinetics and Morphology in Vapor Deposition Processing
Unstructured Density Based CFD Methodology for Gas Turbine Combustor Applications

Containerless Research, Inc. (formerly Intersonics, Inc.) Evanston, IL

High Temperature Thermophysical Property Measurements in Microgravity

Cree Research, Inc., Durham, NC

High Temperature, Silicon Carbide, Power MOSFET
High Temperature, Silicon Carbide, Power Thyristor

Creare, Inc., Hanover, NH

Energy Conversion Technology

CVC Products, Inc., Rochester, NY

Thin Film Deposition System for Superconducting Materials

Cybernet Systems Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI

Intelligent Robot/Sensor Operations System

Deformation Control Technology, Inc., Cleveland, OH

A Software Tool to Design Thermal Barrier Coatings
Simulation Based Design system for Thermal Barrier Coatings

CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL

A Probability Density Function (PDF) Method for Turbulent Reacting Flow
Dual-Spray Fuel Nozzle for Low Emissions Gas Turbine Combustors

Cirrus Design Corporation, Duluth, MN 

Low Cost Electromagnetic De-Icer for Natural Laminar Flow Airfoils

Creare, Inc., Hanover, NH

Low Cost, High Performance Cryogenic Heat Exchanger

Conax Buffalo Technologies L.L.C. Laboratories, Buffalo, NY 

Blackbody High Temperature Optical Sensor

Cutting Edge Optronics, Inc., St. Charles, MO

355 nm Laser Design for Atmospheric Measurements

Deformation Control Technology, Inc., Cleveland, OH

A Software Tool to Design Thermal Barrier Coatings
Simulation Based Design System for Thermal Barrier Coatings

Electrochem, Inc., Woburn, MA

High Efficiency Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

Electroformed Nickel, Inc., Huntsville, AL

High Temperature Oxidation-Barrier Coatings for Refractory Metals
Improved Electroformed Structural Copper and Copper Alloys for Rocket Components

Environmental Optical Sensors, Inc., Boulder, CO

Miniature Ultra-Stable Diode Laser

Energy Science Laboratories, Inc., San Diego, CA

Carbon Grid Materials for Ion Engines

Exfluor Research Corporation , Austin, TX

Perfluoropolyether Lubricating Fluids

Expert Microsystems, Inc., Orangevale, CA

SureSense Online Signal Validation Software

Flogiston, Austin, TX

Personal Motion Platform

Fluent, Inc. (formerly Fluid Dynamics, Inc.), Lebanon, NH

Fluid-Structure Interaction Using Unstructured Meshes
Numerical Simulations of Transport Processes

Focused Research, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Single Mode Tunable Diode Lasers From 1.9 to 2.3 Microns

Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA (acquired by QinetiQ North America)

Lightweight Graphite/Aluminum (Gr/AI) Space Radiators for Thermal Management
Near Hermetic Packaging Technology for MMIC Devices 
Non-Toxic, Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) Processable, High Temperature Matrix Resin
YAG Reinforcement Preforms for CMCs

Geo-Centers, Inc., Newton Centre, MA

Fiber Optic Systems for Composite Process Monitoring and Control 

Giner, Inc., Waltham, MA

Novel Electrodes for Hydrogen/Bromine Battery

Global Aircraft Corporation Starkville, Mississippi

Quasi-Constant Speed Composite Propellers

Hyper-Therm High-Temperature Composites, Inc., Huntington Beach, CA

High Oxygen Affinity Doping of Boron Nitride for Tough, Durable SiC/SiC Composites

Hittite Microwave Corporation Chelmsford, MA

Millimeter Converters for Satellite Communications

Hypres, Inc., Elmsford, NY

Superconducting Digitizar for Radio Astronomy

I-Kinetics, Inc. (acquired by eForce, Inc.), Redwood City, CA

Internet Software Development Tool

Infinia Corporation (formerly Stirling Technology Company - STC), Kennewick, WA

Dynamically Balanced Multiple-Converter Stirling Power System
Stirling Convertor for a Radioisotope Power System

Insightful Corporation, Seattle, WA

GeoBrowse: An Integrated Environment for Satellite Image Retrieval and Mining

Intelligent Automation Incorporated, Rockville, MD

Six Degree of Freedom Active Vibration Damping
Software for Planning In a Dynamic Environment

Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS), Torrance, CA

Detecting the Onset of Fire in an Aircraft by employing Correlation Spectroscopy

I-Kinetics, Inc, Burlington, MA

I-Bridge: access to computer system resources

Innovative Dynamics, Inc., Ithaca, NY 

Ice Detection Sensor System 
Smart Coating for In-Situ Monitoring of Engine Components

Intelligent Learning Systems, Inc., Austin, TX

QuickStudy

International Solar Electric Technology, Inglewood, CA

Light-Weight Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells for Space Applications

Ion Optics, Inc., Waltham, MA

Hand Held Infrared Spectrometer

Iowa Thin Film Technologies, Inc. Ames, IA

Flexible, Lightweight, Amorphous, Silicon Solar Cells Tuned for Air Mass Zero (AMO) Spectrum

Irvine Sensors Corporation, Costa Mesa, CA

3-D Chip Stacking to Build Cameras, Computers
Signal Processing for Spectral Imaging

JX Crystals, Inc.

High Volume Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Device Wafer Production

Kopin Corporation Taunton, MA

30-Percent Efficient, Tandem Solar Cells for Line-Focus Photovoltaic Array

Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc., Leonia, NJ

6H-SiC Pressure Sensors for High Temperature Applications

Laser Components Instrument Group, Inc., Wilmington, MA

Tunable Diode Lasers and Systems for Airborne Atmospheric Studies

Lincom Corporation, Houston, TX

Advanced Simulation Graphics
Faulty Isolation Using Fuzzy Logic
VrTool™

LiteCom, Inc. Canoga Park, CA

Fiber Optic Cable Feedthrough and Hermetic Sealing for Aerospace Environment

LNK Corporated, Inc., Riverdale, MD

Parallel Processing for Aerial/Satellite Image Understanding

MagneMotion, Inc.

Shaftless, Magnetically Levitated Flywheel Energy Storage Systems

Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corporation Tucson, AZ 

Advanced Electrode Materials for Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery
Processing of Metal Matrix Composites with Controlled Microstructures

Metadyne, Inc. Towanda, PA

Manufacturing of Refractory Metal Components

Metal Matrix Cast Composites, Inc. Waltham, MA

Pressure Infiltration Casting of Superalloy Composites

Microwave Monolithics Incorporated, Simi Valley, CA

Advanced Monolithic GaAs IF Switch Matrix

Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. Albany, NY

High Temperature Foil Thrust Bearing

NASTEC, Inc. Brook Park, OH

High Temperature Wave Bearing Technology

Nektonics, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Computational Fluid Dynamics Package for Massively Parallel Supercomputing
Nekton: Tool for Coating Process Simulations

Neocera, Inc.  Beltsville, MD 

Microwave-Compatible Superconducting Films 

Nielsen Engineering & Research, Inc., Mountain View, CA

Unsteady Triangular Mesh/Navier-Stokes Method for Aerodynamics of Aircraft with Ice Accretion

Omnitech Robotics, Inc., Englewood, CO

Autonomous Operation Robotic Vehicle System

OPHIR Corporation, Littleton, CO

Infrared Air Temperature Radiometer

Pacific Monolithics, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Integrated Circuit Development for X-Band Communications

Physical Optics Corporation, Torrance, CA

3-D Visualization System For Robotic Teleoperations

Physical Sciences, Inc.  Andover, MA 

Accelerated Oxygen Source for Material Degradation Studies
Arc Reduction Procedures for Solar Cells
Electrocatalysts for High Efficiency Solid Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell
Lightweight Atmospheric Ozone Measurement Instrument

Picometrix (an API company), Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

1-Picossecond, High-Impedence Absolute-Voltage Probe/Pulser with 1-Microvolt Sensitivity

Photobit Corporation, Pasadena, CA

Radiation-Hard CMOS APS Circuits for Star Trackers

Polatomic, Inc., Richardson, TX

Metal Thin-Film Optical Polarizer

Precision Combustion, Inc.  New Haven, CT

A Novel Approach to Catalytic Combustion  
Catalytic Ignition for Rotary Combustion Engines 

Princeton Optronics, Inc., Princeton, NJ

Epitaxial Lift-Off GaAs On Diamond for High Power Devices
Opto-electronic circuits for phased array receivers

Ralcon Development Lab, Paradise, UT

Large-Aperture Holographic Optics

Real-Time Innovations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Software Development Package for Intelligent Reactive Systems

Reticular Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA

Intelligent Agents and Agent Communications Languages for Operations

Rotordynamics-Seal Research, Loomis, CA

Nonlinear Magnetic Bearing Software And Controller

Satcon Technology Corp., Boston, MA

Carbon Fiber Flywheel for Power Generation and Attitude Control

Schellenberg Associates, Huntington Beach, CA

Ka-Band, High Efficiency Power MMIC

Scientific Research Associates, Inc., Glastonbury, CT

Flow in Turbine Blade Passages

Science Research Laboratory, Sommerville, MA

Multiple Beam Spectroscopy for Liquid Rocket Engine Diagnostics

Sensors Unlimited, Inc., Princeton, NJ

High Power, Tunable 828 and 935 nm Distributed Feedback and Bragg Reflector Lasers

SI Diamond Technology, Inc., Austin, TX

Autonomous Leak Detector for Orbiting Spacecraft

SOL-3 Resources, Inc., Reading, MA

Gas Turbine Combustor for Low Pattern Factor and Low NOx Emissions

Southwest Sciences, Inc., Santa Fe, NM

Near-Infrared Diode Laser Microgravity Combustion Diagnostic
Wavelength Agile External Cavity Diode Laser

Space Instruments, Inc., Encinitas, CA

Infrared Spectral Imaging Radiometer (ISIR)

Spaceborne, Inc., La Canada, CA

Custom Correlator Chip for New Generation of Compact Spectrometers

Space Power, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Power Processing For Electronical Propulsion

Spire Corporation, Bedford, MA

Advanced MOCVD Reactor for Producing New Material Systems
High Efficiency, Radiation-Resistant Indium Phosphide Solar Cells
Oxidation Resistant Ti-6Al-4V-SiC Composite Materials by Ion-Beam Processing

Stirling Technology Company (STC), Kennewick, WA

Integral Stirling and Joule-Thomson Cryocooler for Low Temperature Applications

Structural Analysis Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

AUTODESIGN

Sunpower, Inc., Athens, OH

Measuring Reversing Flow Pressure Drop in Stirling Engine Heat Exchangers 

Synchrony, Inc., Roanoke, VA

Magnetic Bearing System for Gas Turbine Engine

Tecstar, Inc., City of Industry, CA

26 Percent Efficient, Triple Junction Cascade® Space PV Solar Cells

Technology Management, Inc., Cleveland, OH

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems Technology
Regenerative Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology Development

The ReJen Company Bishop, CA

The Regenerated Diesel Engine

The Technology Partnership, Grosse lle, MI

High Reliability Long-Term Lubricators

Ultrasystems, Inc., Irvine, CA

Perfluoropolyalkylether Fluid as High Temperature Lubricant

 

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